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    One Hundred Best Recipes of the Century


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    Sue Dawson

    Recipe Introduction


    Every other writer in the world has compiled a list of the century's best -- the best movies, the best songs, the most important people, the most influential events.

    It's time for recipes.

    I'm not going to call this list of 100 recipes "the best." Anyone with any taste buds knows that the 1900s produced far better dishes than tuna noodle casserole and corn dogs. But they define the century of cooking as surely as shrimp de Jonghe and cherries jubilee.

    I'm calling my list "The 100 Most Popular Recipes of the Century."
    The recipe had to be mentioned by at least two food-history books or in early- and late-1900 cookbooks.

    The recipe had to have been popular throughout a major part of the century. Some of the recipes did not originate in the 1900s, but they were at their peak then.

    In some cases a recipe was included because a new invention or development made the dish possible. Refrigerators, for example, made icebox cookies easy to make. And cream of mushroom soup brought us Green Bean Bake.

    My opinion. Somebody had to decide whether Chex mix and Harvard beets should be included. I figured it might as well be me.

    So here goes!


    Angel food cake
    Applesauce cake
    Baked Alaska
    Banana bread
    Bananas Foster
    Beef stroganoff
    Beef Wellington
    Billi-bi
    Black bottom pie
    Borscht
    Brownies
    Caesar salad
    California Dip
    Carrot cake
    Cheese ball
    Chef's salad
    Cherries jubilee
    Chex mix
    Chicken a la king
    Chicken cacciatore
    Chicken divan
    Chicken tetrazzini
    Chiffon cakes
    Chiffon pies
    Chili
    Chocolate meringue pie
    Chop suey
    Cioppino
    Clam dip
    Club sandwich
    Cobb salad
    Corn dog
    Crab cakes
    Crab Louis
    Crepes suzette
    Date nut bread
    Devil's food cake
    Eggs Benedict
    Eggs florentine
    Fettuccine Alfredo
    Fondue
    French dressing
    French onion soup
    French-fried onion rings
    Frozen fruit salad
    Fudge
    Gazpacho
    Golden Glow Salad
    Graham cracker crust
    Green Bean Bake
    Green beans amandine
    Green goddess salad
    Guacamole
    Hamburger
    Harvard beets
    Heavenly hash
    Hermits
    Hero sandwich
    Hush puppies
    Ice-box cookies
    Italian spaghetti
    Jellyroll
    Lady Baltimore cake
    Lasagna
    Lobster Newburg
    Marshmallow sweet potatoes
    Nachos
    Oatmeal cookies
    Oyster's Rockefeller
    Pasta primavera
    Peach Melba
    Peanut butter cookies
    Pecan pie 1902
    Perfection salad
    Philadelphia sticky buns
    Pineapple upside-down cake
    Pizza
    Quiche
    Reuben sandwich
    Rice Krispies Treats
    Rumaki
    Smores
    Salsa
    Senate bean soup
    Seven-minute icing
    Shrimp Creole
    Shrimp de Jonghe
    Sloppy Joes
    Spanish rice
    Swedish meatballs
    Sweet and sour meatballs
    Swiss steak
    Thousand Island dressing
    Three-bean salad
    Toll House cookies
    Tuna noodle casserole
    Tuna salad
    Vichyssoise
    Waldorf salad
    Zucchini bread

 

 

 


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